Promoting Worker Health: A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century

By Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter

In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level. They begin by summarizing the history and present complexity and irrationality of America's health-insurance system. They then lay out the key concepts underlying the UWCM regime and the practical policy steps necessary to enact it. At the heart of the UWCM is a broader understanding of what constitutes worker's health, one grounded in scientific research and cognizant of the wide range of physical and mental illnesses that can afflict workers. The UWCM stipulates a single policy providing rational and reasoned recourse for universal risks: illness, injury, disability, and death.

Presenting their ideas with precision in this 34-page pamphlet, Hadler and Carter intend to spark discussion among health-care providers, insurers, legislators, and everyday citizens about how we might move beyond the limits of the current debate toward new, truly effective solutions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469650967
• ISBN13: 9781469650968
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"